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SWEEP IN CONGRESS; Democrats Obtain 54-42 Margin in Senate by Winning 9 GOP Seats CERTAIN OF 258 IN HOUSE Republicans Have 167, With 9 Still in Doubt -- Shifts in Chairmanships Slated DEMOCRATS CLINCH SENATE AND HOUSE

By WILLIAM S. WHITE ();

November 04, 1948,

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The Democrats swept all of Congress yesterday, recapturing the supposedly impregnable Republican House by a landslide and seizing firm control of the Senate in one of the great political revolutions of American history.

November 04, 1948

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